... J. Gordon Melton's Introduction to the forthcoming book The Brainwashing Controversy: An Anthology of Essential Documents , edited by J. Gordon ... In the United States at the end of the 1970s, brainwashing emerged as a popular theoretical construct around which to understand ... ...

");} // -- Conversion and "Brainwashing" in New Religious Movements by Dick Anthony and Thomas Robbins ... been essentially involuntary in the sense that powerful techniques of “brainwashing”, “mind control” or “coercive persuasion” have rendered the processes of ... ...

");} // -- A SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL CRITIQUE OF "BRAINWASHING" CLAIMS ABOUT RECRUITMENT TO NEW RELIGIONS By James T. Richardson ... This chapter offers a multi-faceted critique of so-called "brainwashing theories" which purport to explain recruitment to and participation in ... the development and widespread acceptance of theories involving claims about brainwashing and "mind control" in religious groups are presented, as is ... ...

... the original, is part of a collection of documents on brainwashing and related controversies. For a history of these controversies, and ... this document, see the paper by Massimo Introvigne "Liar, Liar": Brainwashing, CESNUR and APA . On March 24, 1987 APA filed a ... ...

RELIGION AS CLAIM "Brainwashing": Career of a Myth in the United States and Europe ... is dubious at best. This contribution will focus on how brainwashing and mind control theories are used in order to distinguish ... ...

");} // -- “Liar, Liar”: Brainwashing, CESNUR and APA by Massimo Introvigne - See also a collection of documents on APA and the brainwashing controversy. This text is also available in Italian and French ... ...

");} // -- Killing Fields: Lifton, Brainwashing, and Aum Shinri-kyo A Review of Robert Jay Lifton ... City University of New York, is so frequently associated with brainwashing controversies and cult wars, particularly in Europe, that many tend ... ...

... Salt Lake City and Provo (Utah), June 20-23, 2002 Brainwashing, Italian-Style: The Rise and Fall of Plagio Massimo Introvigne ... plagium in Latin] used as a translation for the English "brainwashing" (although a literal translation of "brainwashing", " lavaggio del cervello ", is also used) such that, for example ... ...